Élie-Abel Carrière Explained
| Birth Date: | 4 June 1818 |
| Birth Place: | France |
| Field: | Botany |
| Known For: | Traité Général des Conifères (1855) |
| Author Abbrev Bot: | Carrière |
Élie-Abel Carrière (4 June 1818 - 17 August 1896) was a French botanist, based in Paris. He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850 - 1870, describing many new species, and the new genera Tsuga, Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga. His most important work was the Traité Général des Conifères, published in 1855, with a second, extensively revised edition in 1867.
There is a brief biography of Carrière, in English, in the journal Brittonia.[1]
In addition to his studies of conifers, he published a number of works in the field of horticulture:
- Guide pratique du jardinier multiplicateur: ou art de propager les végétaux par semis, boutures, greffes, etc. (1856)-- book on propagation of plants by seeds, cuttings, grafts.
- Flore des jardins de l'Europe: manuel général des plantes, arbres et arbustes, comprenant leur origine, description, culture : leur application aux jardins d'agrément, à l'agriculture, aux forêts, aux usages domestiques, aux arts et à l'industrie. Et classés selon la méthode de Decandolle par Jacques et Hérincq, (Flora of the gardens of Europe: general handbook of plants, trees and shrubs, including their origin, description, culture: their application to ornamental gardens, to agriculture, forests, domestic, arts and industry. And classified according to the method by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle with Henri Antoine Jacques and François Hérincq) / Paris: Librairie agricole de la Maison rustique, (1857)
- Entretiens familiers sur l'horticulture (1860)
- Encyclopédie horticole (1862) -- Horticulture encyclopedia
- Production et fixation des variétés dans les végétaux (1865)
- Origine des plantes domestiques démontrée par la culture du radis sauvage (1869) -- Origin of domesticated plants demonstrated by culture of wild radish.[2]
- Semis et mise à fruit des arbres fruitiers (1881).[3]
In 1880, he described Iris orchioides.[4]
Notes and References
- Williams . Roger L. . An intellectual biography of Elie-Abel Carrière . Brittonia . 2004 . 56 . 4 . 365–374 . 10.1663/0007-196x(2004)056[0365:aiboec]2.0.co;2.
- http://www.idref.fr/075131528 IDREF.fr
- http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k28807x
- [Anna Pavord]
